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Hi,

At some point yesterday my thunderbird upgraded itself to 102.3.2, and since then its pretty much un-usable.

I can't see new email's in my inbox, even though I know they are there. (Luckily I also have web mail access). If I find an email, it opens all the email's in the thread, I don't want that, ever. I can't get it in date desc order, it says it is in view/sort by, but its not, scrolling around I can see email's newer below email's older, its in no particular order as far as I can see.

I've tried folder repair, and for a moment it all looks great and I can see today's email at the top, then it all goes back to how it was.

I've tried messing with the view settings, and actually most of the settings without any effect.

How can I get it back to how it was before the upgrade? Ordered by email's received decending?

FWIW I have 4 email accounts on this thunderbird, all on different servers and its affecting them all the same, none of them sort properly and I can't find new emails.

Any help would be very gratefully appreciated?

I have used AT&T Websites Mail for years for my domain, but that's all going away at the end of the month. To recover and preserve my emails I've installed Thunderbird as pop server to store all emails on my local desktop. My inbox was accessed and downloaded successfully, however, over the years I have sorted much of the mail I have received into topic specific folders. Thunderbird did not access or download those folders onto my desktop. on my desktop and while it successfully connected with my email account and downloaded all contents of my inbox none of the category folders, nor did it bring over Sent or Draft folders. I've gone through the settings but don't see anything obvious. What am I doing wrong?

I have followed the instructions for moving my data folder to a new PC running Windows 11 and it is not working. The only thing that is different is that my file path on my old Windows 10 PC is different. The folder is located on my desktop and labeled "thunderbird data". There is no three level jump to "roaming". But the contents of the folder are the same, however. I copied, paste and recopied to new PC per instructions, then restarted Thunderbird. It takes me directly to the account set up process, clearly not recognizing the pasted folder and its contents. I've now tried this multipe times to no avail.

I recently recovered the data from a corrupted laptop from 2005 that had a bunch of old emails stored in Thunderbird 1.0 using Windows XP. I would love to recover them and convert them to .mbox, but haven't found a way to convert or to install that version of Thunderbird on a modern laptop. Many thanks in advance for any advice!

Moving to a new laptop, running Fedora 36, with Flatpak. Was able to migrate Thunderbird profile without issue. However, I can not see any of my email folders or the contents of my inbox. Under Account Settings/Server Settings/Message Storage/Local Directory is a path to my email folders. While that location is correct, the email folders still do not show for the account. I "Browsed" to them again, and now the Local directory shows /run/flatpak/doc/8cad13c1/mail-remote However, that did not help, as email folders are still not shown. What am I missing here?

Migrated to a new laptop. Fedora 37 Thunderbird 102.8.0 (via Flatpak)

Was able to migrate Thunderbird profile without issue. However, I can not see any of my email folders or the contents of my inbox (All Folders). Under Account Settings/Server Settings/Message Storage/Local Directory is a path to my email folders. Thunderbird see this, but ignores the contents. Instead it created a new inbox, INBOX-1.msf And then every time it starts it creates a new iteration, INBOX-2.msf, etc.

Removing all *.msf files did not change a thing. Still an empty inbox and no other folders shown. And the iterations of INBOX-N.msf continue.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Hi Just changed computers and have Thunderbird 102.8.0 64bit installed. All emails present and correct. Trouble is all my addresses are gone. I backed it up from the old computer using MozBackup. I know its old, but not sure how else to do it. Anyhow, although everything else came across from the back up, the email addresses didnt. I thought it might be in my Google account, but that seems to just have all the names but no addresses?? Any ideas??

Hello: I seem to have made an error when setting up my Gmail account in Thunderbird. Thunderbird shows all of my Gmail correctly, but when I log into Gmail on my phone and iPad, all of the mail is gone. Can you help a newbie fix this mistake? I'd like to setup Gmail and Thunderbird so that they are both in synch. Thank you!!

During the migration to Thunderbird Gmail imported several folders (e.g., Chat( that I do not want cluttering up my clean Thunderbird account. When I try to delete them I get a FAILURE message. Is there anything to be done?

TB kept telling me I needed to restart my computer to finish update. I did - multiple times. I tried to uninstall & found 2 versions in my Apps folder. I used uninstall for a version 78.7.1 installed 2/6/21. It keeps giving me the 'Need to restart" message. After multiple failures, I uninstalled a later version w/o any problems. Still can't uninstall 78.7.1. So tried to reinstall TB. It downloaded but when I get to the install screen, it says I need to restart to finish the update. Again, no results. How do I force the uninstall of TB that is obviously causing the problem so I can start fresh?

I want to transfer my email accounts and profiles from my Windows 10 machine to my Mac. Import failed. Following the instructions on Mozilla's site, I searched for my profiles folder on my Windows machine. Contrary to the instructions, which said there was ONE profile folder, there are 2: one in the "Roaming" folder and another in the "App Data > Local" folder. I copied both onto a usb stick, plugged the stick into my Mac installed Thunderbird, pointed Thunderbird to one of the 2 Thunderbird folders on my usb, and hit "import". Import failed. "Import failed unexpectedly, more information may be available in the Error Console". I have no idea where or what the Error Console is.

Any suggestions as to how to successfully migrate my profiles will be gratefully accepted.

It's not true! Clicking on the close thunderbird button in the error message does nothing, I've uninstalled, reinstalled rebooted. I've had this laptop 3 days, do I need to To go back to factory settings on this laptop.

periodically thunderbird is popping up saying it can't update, and please download the latest version manually. however I am already on the most recent version available.

I would guess that the site which thunderbird checks for updates is out of sync with the general download website, or the software gets confused when it is running continuously for more than a day.

Hello, my computer died but before it did i backed up my Thunderbird profile files - the backup is 77.8GB so big to zip using export. I installed Thunderbird v.102.8.0 64 bit; and copied my backed up files over and now my email account list shows when clicking the dropdown arrow next to "get messages" but the email account list (72 email accounts) does not show in the left hand pane.

I have attached images of what I see, what is showing in app data - both local and roaming, and also of both .ini files.

Using the troubleshooting setting the software is pointing to the correct location.

I would truly appreciate your help.

Thank you,

Robin Monroe

Hi!

I´ve bought a new PC. Now I need to access emails exported through EML from TB to a Folder outside TB. The relevant Folder is visible in my new PC. All separate emails are visible onscreen, but when I click on an email it doesn´t open. Instead, I am asked to open a new account. TB is not a listed option, only Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, iCloud and others, such as "other account POP IMAP".

I am not well versed in these TB matters.

Can I access exported emails? If so, how?

Are my exported emails still accessible as emails?

Should I have alerted the technician about this before he transferred my info to my new PC?

Many thanks in advance for all help!

Best, Stefan Andersson

I am currently using IMAP. Rackspace hosts my email. I want to change ISP's. I understand that my Rackspace emails will disappear once I delete my Rackspace account and they will not be uploaded to the new ISP.

I need to have access to all my old emails and I don't care about the limitations of POP.

Before I make the move, can I switch from IMAP to POP and download all my emails? Will this retain the file structure - in particular, "inbox" and "sent"

If that works, I'll set up the new ISP for POP. Will new emails be appended to my exiting inbox and sent folders?

Hej Jeg følger fremgangsmåden i artiklen Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer, men har lidt (store) problemer. Først fungerede det slet ikke. Efter slet og ny installation på den nye maskine fik jeg mails og adressebog over, men kalender mangle bortset fra et enkelt fremtidigt møde. Efter forsøg på export og import (under Events og tasks) får jeg dannet en fin iCalendar (.ics) fil som jeg efterfølgende ikke kan importere fordi filen ikke indeholder importerbare el Jeg prøver så at gennemføre hele processen med Moving Thunderbird ... igen, og får som ventet spørgsmål om Overwrite existing ..., som jeg svarer ja til. Der overskrives data, men de nyests mails kommer ikke med og kalender mangler stadig. Adressebog stadig fin. Noget tyder på min Thunderbird klient kigger efter data et andet sted end processen tror. Når jeg kigger i Thunderbird Account settings peges der ned i ...Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/...., men nærmere kan jeg ikke komme det. Er der en måde jeg med sikkerhed kan slette al data i Thunderbird, og så prøve at gennemføre Move ... processen igen. Og hvis kalender stadig ikke kommer med over, hvordan får jeg så min dagbog tilbage fra 2009 over til den nye laptop ?? Venlig hilsen Johannes Elkjær Madsen